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regions in Japan. 803 SMEs answered this questionnaire. We asked 53 questions, including firm’s current business condition …
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The “Financial Big Bang” reforms during the latter half of the 1990s substantially transformed the Japanese financial system, but despite this, the level of risky assets that Japanese households have in their portfolio has not increased. One reason for this is the lack of knowledge necessary...
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than a flow of funds, public involvement in finance in the U.S. may be greater than in Japan. Concerning the privileged … government enterprise theory, it is true that Japan Post has privileges (e.g., the exemption of taxes as current expenses), but … Japan Post and the conditions of government enterprise for competition are almost equalized with the private sector, On the …
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In the fall of 1998, two important financial regulatory reform acts were passed in Japan. The first of these acts, the …
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This paper provides a brief explanation of the Japanese public credit guarantee system and analyzes what role it played during the global financial crisis. The author conducted a questionnaire survey of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Aichi Prefecture, the prefecture most seriously...
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After the burst of the bubble economy, Japanese economy has been changed drastically. Traditionally, Japanese economy was characterized as a bank-centered economy, but the banking system did not function well in the 1990's. Responding to banking problems, the Japanese government initiated the...
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Recently, credit ratings have been enhancing the influence on issuers as well as the national economy. This paper explains the historical development and several current features of the Japanese bond market, and discusses why credit ratings gained a significant role in the 1990s. We also present...
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largest economic block in Japan, with 2041 companies responding. This article introduces the results of this questionnaire …
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In this paper, to analyze the similarities and differences between the regional finance of Japan and South Korea … questionnaires to small to midsize companies located in Japan’s Kansai and Tokai regions. From the results, we were able to confirm … that regional finance systems in Japan and Korea are very similar. For example, in the US, there is an overwhelming amount …
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fixed in Japan, this means that medium and small enterprises will have restrictions on the financial products they can use …
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